Activity Stream for Firefox

Activity Stream is an easy-to-use Firefox addon that takes over the new tab page and shows your top visited sites, bookmarks and recent history. Its purpose is to help you retrace your steps easier by collecting all this information and displaying it in one place that you cannot miss while working on the computer.

The extension is developed by Mozilla as part of the Firefox Test Pilot project. It's free and open source. Besides Windows, it can be installed on Mac OS X and Linux.

Once it gets integrated with the web browser, you can test it by opening a new tab to check out your timeline and get a birds-eye view of your browsing details. The top sites are shown on the top side of the new tab page, followed by highlights and recent activity (browser history with visited pages and timestamps).

A search function from the upper part of the window can be used to find content across the web and select the preferred search engine. Activity Stream creates a share button next to the address bar when it's enabled, giving you the possibility to copy the URL of the currently opened page.

You can email the link right away by opening your default email client with one click, share it on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Yahoo Mail or Gmail, as well as remove any of these services and add new ones from Mozilla.

The browser addon worked smoothly with the latest Firefox version in our tests. However, it feels a bit light in feature-set. We expect more insight than information which can be found in Firefox without resorting to browser extensions. Nevertheless, the project is in experimental phase at the moment and there's plenty of room for improvement.